A stunned draft room sat in disbelief as Jonathan Klein explained that he thought blogging was a lot like boxing and that Lampley called a good fight. After an aide explained Lampley had posted three items at The Huffington Post in three months, Klein responded “Who cares. This stuff doesn’t matter anyway. In five years there won’t be any news anymore anyway,” and stormed out of the auditorium.

“State and local news is overrated,” explained editor Baquet. “Our goal isn’t just selling papers. It is to be read in placxes other than California, like New York. We think this is a strategic move that will pay off in the long run.”

Senior draft advisor Bill Moyers quit in the aftermath of this announcement, and commented that the pressure on PBS to “balance” its schedule was continuing, and that he was resigning in disgust at the obvious lurch right this and previous picks indicated for the network. “One word,” Moyers said. “Rove. Just Rove.”

“We can’t believe he slipped this far,” an exuberant Steve Capus proclaimed. “We expect that Yon’s reporting –he’s actually with the troops, you know, will revolutionize television coverage of the war.”

Its got “Comeback blog of the year written all over it,” the Post’s media watcher Howard Kurtz commented. (Kurtz is widely believed to be calling the shots inside the Post’s war room.) “It is a jumble, the print’s too small, the words are too big and there are too many of them, but the Post’s design team can fix all that.”

No one appeared more stunned than Pajams big boss Roger Simon when this choice was announced, as even that Hollywood veteran wasn’t expecting this move with the UTenn law prof under a long term k with the new blog conglomerate.

“Will Pajamas last?” said a WSJ.com senior exec. “Who knows? Besides, contracts can be broken. We’ve got plenty of lawyers. This isn’t beanbag, you know. Maybe we buy the whole pajams thing, maybe we just peel off Reynolds. We’ve got a lead online. We can be patient. It is a little like the Cowboys drafting Staubach in ’64 as he was leaving Annapolis. He didn’t suit up until ’69. Sometimes you have to plan ahead.”

A rumor swept the draft room as Round Three closed that Austin Bay was seen huddled with WSJ.com execs. Bay is also under contract with Pajamas, but is not believed to be barred from advising MSM entities under the terms of his deal.